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After the official report by Omaha authorities

Damaged houses …1,027

Totally destroyed houses …     34

People who died in their dwellings.    74

Other deaths   …    54

Injured …  322

People in the greatest need … 322

Homeless … 2,170

Destroyed and damaged houses … $7,000,000

Trees, fences etc.…    $200,000

Wires, Poles, Streetcars etc…    $200,000

Furniture, Household furnishings and personal property…. $1,500,000

     Tornado is a Spanish word and is called Wirbelsturm in German. At the beginning Tornados are often similar to the mighty Hurricanes of the West Indies, Indian and Chinese oceans. They however exist within a relatively smaller space and are also of less duration. Its diameter funnels from a few miles often down to a thousand feet. They appear most frequently in the western United States as so-called land tornados.  The direction they travel is on a course from southwest to northeast. The devastation that they leave in their path is often enormous.

    The Tornados shape from a very strong climbing of steamed air, once in the heights their steam compresses. In this fashion, usually a storm cloud arises over the Tornado, a small black cloud, the so-called ox eye, and quickly expands it circumference in a funnel shape towards the sky. The tornados form on one hand a transition to a vortex, on the other hand to a cyclone or actually a hurricane.